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I think we, individuals and countries, often create things we eventually oppose. I think Clinton currently opposes Al Qaeda. Russia created Stalin. Do they currently support him? Germany created Hitler. Do they currently support him? The U.S. created Trump....

"The Russian military has obtained 'irrefutable' data that terrorist groups, including Jabhat an Nusra, and the infamous White Helmets met in Idlib province on Sunday, according to the ministry's spokesperson Igor Konashenkov. The militants plotted the final scenarios for the chemical attacks that the Syrian army are expected to make in the cities of Jisr ash Shugur, Serakab, Taftanaz and Sarmin, the Russian military revealed..."

"In Idlib, Al Qaeda has taught children to praise Bin Laden and slaughter Alawites and Shias. So sad and so disturbing how this is whitewashed by our officials who had a hand in AQ seizing the territory."

As laughable as the 6 million Syrian refugees, 7 million internally displaced Syrians, and the appriximately 650,000 Syrians killed during Assad's Syrian civil war? Would fair and democratic elections be preferable to a civil war?

So when is the US going to have free fair and democratic elections? How long should we wait until wwe arm terrorists in the US to overthrow the corrupt regime?

You think elections in the US and Syria are similar? Maybe if Trump had his way?

I don't thnk they are similar. But I also don't believe that the US is a democracy. You on the other hand are so deluded that you think it is.

Here is a link list of the countries in the UN.

Could you please tell me which ones have a democracy, according to your standards. Of the ones that don't which ones should we destablize next?

As laughable as the 6 million Syrian refugees, 7 million internally displaced Syrians, and the appriximately 650,000 Syrians killed during Assad's Syrian civil war? Would fair and democratic elections be preferable to a civil war?

So when is the US going to have free fair and democratic elections? How long should we wait until wwe arm terrorists in the US to overthrow the corrupt regime?

You think elections in the US and Syria are similar? Maybe if Trump had his way?

I don't thnk they are similar. But I also don't believe that the US is a democracy. You on the other hand are so deluded that you think it is.

Here is a link list of the countries in the UN.

Could you please tell me which ones have a democracy, according to your standards. Of the ones that don't which ones should we destablize next?

I don't consider the US to meet the criteria required to be considered a democracy, mostly because they have a two-party system that has intrenched the Democrats/Republicans as their ruling party.

On the list of UN nation's, I think interfering in countries that bomb and gas their own people should be an option for interference by the UN, which should leave Assad's regime open to interference by the UN and International Criminal Court.

"Youtube has shut down all pro-Syrian channels just as the fight to free Idlib from the clutches of Al Qaeda terrorists begins. Silencing Syrian voices only benefits jihadists and those who want to keep Syria in constant turmoil."

"For several years, those who pointed out that Israel was arming and funding rebel groups in Syria were called conspiracy theorists, tankies and Assadists - now it's openly reported in Haaretz. Like so much re: the war on Syria, the 'conspiracy theory' has turned out to be accurate."

"Trump seems to have officially embraced regime change in Syria at the behest of his now closest advisors, National Security Adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. James Jeffrey, a retired US diplomat who was named Pompeo's 'representative for Syria engagement' last month, told the Post that 'the new policy is we're no longer pulling out [US troops] by the end of the year,' and that the plan would also include a 'major diplomatic initiative' to install a new government in Syria."

"Two US jets have bombed a town in the Syrian Deir Ezzor province with white phosphorous munitions, causing massive fires, the Russian military has said. Two F-15 jets on Saturday bombed the town of Hajin with white phosphorous incendiary munitions, banned under the Geneva Convention, according to the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria. 'Following the strikes, large fires were observed in the area,' Lieutenant-General Vladimir Savchenko said Sunday. There's still no information on casualties caused by the bombing run, he added."

"UN independent expert and law professor Alfred de Zayas says the American military presence and the US' support for rebels in Syria violate international law. 'The only country that is there, shall we say, by invitation and therefore legally is Russia. We may not want to accept it but that is what international law says."

Chinese warships, fighter jets and bombers took part in the big, week-long Russian naval exercise in the eastern Mediterranean that ended on Saturday, Sept. 8, DEBKAfile’s military sources reveal. It was the first time that Beijing took any military role in the seven-year Syrian war, a development that has been kept under close wraps by Moscow, Washington and Jerusalem. Our military sources report that 3,500 Chinese marines are on standby for flights to Syria to join the Russian-Iranian-Syrian campaign for retaking Idlib province from rebel hands. They will fly through Russia. Beijing owns a special interest in this campaign in view of the strong presence among the jihadist groups holed up in Idlib of several thousand Uighur Islamists from Xinjiang, who are members of the banned Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), Al Qaeda’s branch in China.

Hmmm...the battle for Idlib...Russia, Iran China, Hezbollah and Syria vs. USA Canada, France, Britain and Israel and their mercenaries...... Is this the War to end all Wars?

"The US government is so desperate to prevent the Syrian government from retaking Idlib that it is willing to launch unilateral military actions with or without the smokescreen 'chemical weapons' justification it has been working to develop in recent weeks."

"Russian state media channels, in a near simultaneous blitz of information, has issued breaking alerts this morning that anti-Assad insurgents in Idlib have begun filming 'fake footage of chemical attacks,' based on Russian MoD statements. The Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation says the 'fake footage of chemical attacks' is expected to be delivered to various TV channels and Western journalists before the end of the day Tuesday. This comes the same morning as a new Wall Street Journal report continuing that the White House is now in direct talks with the UK and France over plans for a possible third round of coordinated strikes on Syria..."

On the list of UN nation's, I think interfering in countries that bomb and gas their own people should be an option for interference by the UN, which should leave Assad's regime open to interference by the UN and International Criminal Court.

Gassing his own people is an unproven Western propaganda meme much like Iraq's WMD's. It would be nice if NATO followed international law. Instead they presume to be accuser, prosecutor, judge and executioner without the Syrian government having a change to meet the accusations in a proper judicial forum. NATO spy agencies have tried the Syrians in the court of public opinion where proof is not required. It is the antithesis of international law.

Unfortunately for the Syrian people since assholes from the NATO started arming terrorists to get regime change everyone has been bombing Syrian cities. The ISIS/NATO coalition bombing cities held by the government and the government trying to liberate them from Islamic fundamentalists. You talk about democracy but fail to notice that the cities captured by the NATO/ISIS coalition all had theocracies in their territories. That is who you support.

So tell me does a government have the right to fight Western backed terrrorists or not?

"...Here is the final battle in Syria. Assad has battled since 2011 against foreign-backed, radical jihadists, ISIS, AQ etc. Here is the last stand. He's about to have final victory - the last real concentration of terrorists in his country. And just now, as the world is watching, as he's about to have the final victory, he steps back and says: 'You know what? I think I'm going to use some gas. Because that's the one thing that will have US Tomahawk missiles destroying my army and allow Al Qaeda to live to fight another day.' It's so preposterous, on its face..."

Once the Western corporate media endorses the spurious gas attack claims, as they always do, few people ask "cui bono?", who benefits.

One can legitimately maintain that Assad is a bad man (which includes doing outsourced torture for the US) but he clearly isn't stupid, as anyone who has seen him interviewed would know.

To blame him for this latest in a series of false flag gas attacks, his thinking would have to be:

"Let's see, we are winning this conflict handily, so let's drop a little poison gas which serves no military or strategic purpose in order to justify another "humanitarian intervention" attack by the US, and my likely overthrow. Cool."

The majority of the Republican-Democrat-media continuum will again slobber approval for Trump's attacks and not doubt the fabrication, though some will complain he should have done more if doesn't complete the “regime change”, and some will claim it's a distraction from his legal problems (probably some truth there)--but few, or none, will say it is another act of unwarranted US aggression.

Taking the president, the U.N. Ambassador, the Israeli Prime Minister and the U.S. Special Representative for Syria at their words, it would appear that the Washington Establishment and its Israeli manipulators have narrowed the options for dealing with Syria and its regional supporter Iran to either war or war. Add to that the closing time window for doing something to ameliorate the Trump Administration’s panic over the impending midterm election, and it would seem that there is a certain inevitability regarding the process whereby the United States military will again be on the march in the Middle East.

Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is www.councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org.

Once the Western corporate media endorses the spurious gas attack claims, as they always do, few people ask "cui bono?", who benefits.

One can legitimately maintain that Assad is a bad man (which includes doing outsourced torture for the US) but he clearly isn't stupid, as anyone who has seen him interviewed would know.

To blame him for this latest in a series of false flag gas attacks, his thinking would have to be:

"Let's see, we are winning this conflict handily, so let's drop a little poison gas which serves no military or strategic purpose in order to justify another "humanitarian intervention" attack by the US, and my likely overthrow. Cool."

The majority of the Republican-Democrat-media continuum will again slobber approval for Trump's attacks and not doubt the fabrication, though some will complain he should have done more if doesn't complete the “regime change”, and some will claim it's a distraction from his legal problems (probably some truth there)--but few, or none, will say it is another act of unwarranted US aggression.

So tell me does a government have the right to fight Western backed terrrorists or not?

Judging by how Assad's regime has been able to bomb and gas people, I would say that the Syrian regime has the right to fight all sorts of people within Syria including terrorists. It seems to me that Assad's dictatorial regime and his father's dictatorial regime have always been able to very aggressively "defend" themselves, well before the outbreak of the recent civil war. I don't think Assad's regime would have lost control over most of Syria without the opposition of a large portion of the Syrian population. I think if Syrians supported Assad, most of his country would not have fallen into the hands of Syrian Sunni rebels and his country would not have been susceptible to interference from Sunni terrorists from outside of Syria. Unfortunately, Assad senior and junior have not governed in the interest of most Syrians and this has led to a deep schism within Syria society that has led to a civil war and to 1/3rd of the country's population becoming refugees. I think if a fair Syrian election were held, Assad would not stand a chance of continuing on with his regime. I think that's why he, and his father before him, have never held fair elections.

It wasn't a civil war it was a well choreographed regime-change operation involving foreign assets from the beginning. Did you not view the Wesley Clark video laying out '7 countries in 5 years'? Go read the early Syria threads and perhaps learn something about how this began instead of simply repeating tired and discredited agit-prop & talking points on official enemies - the same used with Gaddafi and Saddam before him. This project has nothing to do with Assad good or bad except he resisted. And Russia joined this resistance. And Iran. Syria must fall before they can next move on Iran. You need to come to grips with geopolitics, energy corridors and agendas of empire not just mouth propaganda and drivel. Canadian willfull ignorance is facilitating terrible things by forces you should be opposing not cheerleading for. There were thousands of Canadians in the streets in Gulf War 1, now idiots cheer for Al Qaeda in Idlib.

TRNN: Are Warnings on Chemical Warfare in Syria Another 'Weapon of Mass Distraction' ?

"Col Larry Wilkerson says that it was the plan of John Bolton and the neocons to take Iraq, then Syria and then Iran...'Many things have occurred in the past based on false rhetoric, particularly with regard to this particular situation in Syria, where I am very doubtful that Assad has ever used chemical weapons, and yet we've sent cruise missiles and all matter of rhetoric in that direction..."

If the US's goal was to depose Assad's regime why didn't they simply go ahead with Obama's "red-line in the sand" and inforce a no-fly zone over Iraq and take the Assad regime out with the help of the Syrian rebels and outside forces like Daesh?

You need to come to grips with geopolitics, energy corridors and agendas of empire not just mouth propaganda and drivel. Canadian willfull ignorance is facilitating terrible things by forces you should be opposing not cheerleading for. There were thousands of Canadians in the streets in Gulf War 1, now idiots cheer for Al Qaeda in Idlib....

...true enough but let´s focus on the root cause of this ignorance...it´s the CBC and their blatant propaganda! No one is challenging this......(I am prepared to challenge them legally, forcing the Federal Courts to admiot that onesided broadcasting is a violation of our political rights!)

Until progressive institutions in Canada throw off their coloured glasses, Canada a s a country is doomed to this nonsense and ultimately will become a failed state!

"According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the White Helmets, together with terrorists, have chosen 22 families with children, as well as orphans kidnapped from refugee camps to participate in their filming."

"The Russian military claims to have staged footage of the upcoming chemical attack on the Syrian city of Idlib. The video reportedly includes scenes of White Helmets operatives treating supposed victims. Boris Malagaski explains the organization helps justify attacks on the Syrian government..."

The three incidents bring to 39 the number of chemical attacks which the Commission of Inquiry on Syria has documented since 2013, including 33 attributed to the government, a U.N. official told Reuters. The perpetrators of the remaining six have not been sufficiently identified.

"Let's recap Britain's role in the conflict. The former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas claimed in an interview on French television that 2 years before the war began, UK officials told him they were 'preparing something in Syria. This was in Britain not in America. Britain was organizing an invasion of rebels into Syria,' Dumas said. In June 2012, an Israeli website suggested that British special forces were already operating inside Syria..."

You need to come to grips with geopolitics, energy corridors and agendas of empire not just mouth propaganda and drivel. Canadian willfull ignorance is facilitating terrible things by forces you should be opposing not cheerleading for. There were thousands of Canadians in the streets in Gulf War 1, now idiots cheer for Al Qaeda in Idlib....

...true enough but let´s focus on the root cause of this ignorance...it´s the CBC and their blatant propaganda! No one is challenging this......(I am prepared to challenge them legally, forcing the Federal Courts to admiot that onesided broadcasting is a violation of our political rights!)

Until progressive institutions in Canada throw off their coloured glasses, Canada a s a country is doomed to this nonsense and ultimately will become a failed state!

"A major US military escalation in Syria would be 'based on lies' and will have 'terrible' consequences for Syrians, a French aid worker in Aleppo told RT, adding that Washington seems determined to prolong the war at any cost.

Pierre Le Corf, the founder of the NGO 'We are Superheroes' has lived for nearly 3 years in Aleppo - but he said that Western governments, including his home country of France, have provided a distorted picture of the reality on the ground."

I have been documenting the outright fabrications of the CBC, and eventually intend to challenge their right to brainwash Canadians into their submissive support of the imperialist agenda, now threatening total global war....the others you mention, I haven´t bothered with. Perhaps if you do have the stamina to watch the others, you too can do your documentation.....thanks

"Russia and Syrian news services in the US have been censored, but you can still get streaming jihadist propaganda from al Qaeda - controlled Idlib Province. 'Well, I think it's really alarming that we're on the eve of what could be a very serious military confrontation in the Middle East, with the United States and the UK and France threatening to go to war in Syria against Russia, Syria and Iran. At this moment, this very, very dangerous moment, we can't just rely on official stories and officially sanctioned media like CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, which are not only using lies of omission but also willfully disseminating disinformation..."

"Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday that the Syrian regime is not preparing a major offensive against the opposition-held Idlib, adding that Moscow will do everything to protect civilians. 'What is being presented at the moment as the beginning of a Russian-backed offensive by Syrian forces is not a faithful representation of the facts,' said Lavrov during a German-Russian forum in Berlin..."

"Peter Ford, former British Ambassador to Syria, gives us this rather useful media guide aptly described as , 'The Dirty Dozen: 12 lies they tell you to anaesthetise you for the upcoming bombing of Syria'..."

The amusment of watching you twist yourself into a pretzel trying to manufacture consent for Western 'intervention' in Syria is unfortunately overcome by the roiling disgust of yet another example in yet another Middle Eastern war where yet another propagandized Canadian liberal 'lefty' cheerleads yet another destruction/regime change operation in yet another country. Some of those you refer to are seen in the middle tweet in #93. There is no legal or legitimate reason for any foreign jihadi or military to be in Syria or any other country, without a UN Security Council resolution or without the expresss invitation of the legitimate government of that country. USA and it's 'Global Coalition' which includes Canada, has neither.

Israel and Saudi Arabia are two of the most hated regimes in the Middle East. Both are deeply involved along with their western partners in the dismemberment and regime-change operations in Syria, for which there will be no impunity and accounts will be settled in due course, one way or the other.

"Although the White House and Russia have agreed to end the proxy war fought by jihadists in Syria, peace is a long time coming. Why? Contrary to the idea carefully sown by seven years of propaganda, the war against Syria is not 'a revolution which went wrong'. It was decided by the Pentagon in September in 2001, then prepared for many years, admittedly with a few difficulties.

The original feature of the war against Syria is that although it was declared by states (the 'Friends of Syria' [of which Canada was a member], it was in reality fought almost exclusively by non-state armies, the jihadists. During the 7 years of the war, more than 250,000 combatants arrived from overseas to fight against the Syrian Arab Republic. Peace is a long time coming..."

I have been documenting the outright fabrications of the CBC, and eventually intend to challenge their right to brainwash Canadians into their submissive support of the imperialist agenda, now threatening total global war....the others you mention, I haven´t bothered with. Perhaps if you do have the stamina to watch the others, you too can do your documentation.....thanks

Good for you! I wish you all the best with it.
I got so sick and tired of the b-s blatant unwarranted censorship of comments on
their website about a year ago that I finally stopped visiting altogether and boycott it now.

They've got a lot of nerve! And they built in a 'firewall' so it's impossible to contact anyone
to complain about it (phone, e-mail etc.).

"Recent statements from Washington had broadened a threat to include a military response not just to a chemical attack, but to any Russian-backed Syrian offensive that involved civilian casualties. This from a US government whose own operations in Syria and Iraq over the past two years have claimed tens of thousands of lives and turned millions into refugees.

Whether Monday's assault on Latakia is only the beginning of a broader US-led escalation of a war of aggression against Syria will become clear over the coming hours and days. What is certain is that the explosive geopolitical conflict concentrated in the struggle in Syria are threatening to erupt into a far wider regional and even world war."